ByteDance: There will be no mass layoffs; Hackers steal LastPass source code; GitHub is about to delist Trending trending function | Sifu Weekly

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• ByteDance All Staff Meeting: No listing plan, no large-scale layoffs
• Apple launches Xcode Cloud subscription service for developers, starting at $49.99 per month
• Microsoft will optimize Windows 11 SMB compression to reduce file transfer times
• Hackers steal LastPass source code
• Microsoft's "Chopper Department" has started, and GitHub is about to take off the Trending trend function
• Ditching Google, Debian makes DuckDuckGo the default search engine
• Microsoft's largest software product ever: a C/C++ compiler that weighs more than 36 pounds
• Bun received $7 million in funding and set up a company, promising to release a stable version within six months
• TiDB 6.2 released
• Visual Studio Code 1.71.0 released
• Deno 1.25 released, new deno init command
• Jina 3.8.0 released
• The team refuted the rumors that the team was dead, and wxPython 4.2.0 was officially released

Industry information

ByteDance All Staff Meeting: No listing plan, no large-scale layoffs

News on September 1st, ByteDance recently held a new All Hands (employee face-to-face). ByteDance chairman and CEO Liang Rubo, as well as CFO Micro Motion, previously hired from Skadden, and other senior executives, communicated with employees across the company through live video.

In April of this year, Micro Motion’s joining Byte was once considered a signal that Byte was promoting its listing. For this reason, she especially stated at the exchange meeting that ByteDance currently has no specific listing plan and no timetable for listing. During this period, she herself is focusing on understanding the company's business, culture, finances and people, meeting colleagues, users and shareholders, "proud of the company's products".

Regarding layoffs that employees are most worried about, ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo said that the company currently "does not have a large-scale layoff plan", but will put forward higher requirements for new employee recruitment and employee performance.

Apple launches Xcode Cloud subscription service for developers, starting at $49.99 per month

After more than a year of closed beta testing, Apple has announced the availability of an Xcode Cloud subscription service to all developers. Xcode Cloud offers three different payment models: a $49.99 per month version for 100 compute hours. The $99.99 per month version can use 250 computing hours, and the $399.99 per month version can use 1000 computing hours. A compute hour is an hour of performing tasks in the cloud, such as developing an application or running a test.

Microsoft will optimize Windows 11 SMB compression to reduce file transfer times

A few days ago, Microsoft pushed the KB5016691 optional update to Windows 11 users, and earlier brought a similar KB5016693 update to Windows Server 2022. SMB compression allows system administrators, users, or applications to change the form of compression when transferring files over the Internet. This eliminates the need to compress-send with compression software and then decompress on the target PC. With SMB support, compressed files will consume less network bandwidth and reduce transfer time at the cost of slightly increased CPU usage during transfer.

Hackers steal LastPass source code

LastPass, which provides password management services, issued a statement saying hackers stole parts of its source code. LastPass said it detected unusual activity in the development environment two weeks ago, and a subsequent investigation found that unauthorized hackers gained access to parts of the development environment through a compromised developer account, stealing some source code and private Technical Information. LastPass said it had responded and hired a cybersecurity and forensics firm. It stressed that there was no evidence that hackers accessed customer data or password vaults. LastPass explained that it leverages the industry-standard Zero Knowledge zero-knowledge architecture to ensure that it also doesn't know the customer's master password.

Microsoft's "Chopper Department" has started, and GitHub is about to take off the Trending trend function

Microsoft GitHub issued a reminder under the Trending Trends section that starting September 30, 2022, Trending Trends will no longer be available. Trending is a feature that Microsoft GitHub introduced in 2018 to view popular repositories and developers in the GitHub community. Trending Repositories showcases the top 25 potential open source projects, users can sponsor projects, and filter by language, programming language, daily/weekly/monthly. Trending will make statistics based on star, fork, submission, follow count, etc., and update 8 times a day.

The official reason given by Microsoft GitHub is the low usage of Trending Repositories (popular repositories) and Trending Developers (popular developers).

Ditching Google, Debian makes DuckDuckGo the default search engine

Recently, according to foreign media reports, Debian issued an announcement saying that due to privacy reasons, the default search engine of the Chromium browser was changed from Google to DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that promises not to track users, while Chromium is a web browser led by Google.

This proposal was proposed as early as April 6, 2020, but only recently passed. The reason for the change is as stated in the announcement: for privacy reasons, the default search engine was changed to DuckDuckGo. Set up different search engines under Settings -> Search Engines (closed: #956012).

Debian, like most Linux systems, uses Firefox as its default web browser, but also provides Chromium in its repositories. It's worth mentioning that the above changes will only affect the version of Chromium it ships from the repository.

Microsoft's largest software product ever: a C/C++ compiler that weighs more than 36 pounds

The official account of Microsoft Windows Dev Docs recently posted an interview video with its archivist Amy Stevenson on social platforms. Amy revealed in the video that since the beginning, the biggest software Microsoft has released is a "Microsoft C/C++ compiler with Windows SDK", and since then, Microsoft has not released such a heavy software. According to reports, the compiler was released in 1992 and weighed more than 40 pounds, mostly in the form of thick reference books and "quick" getting started guides. It encapsulates Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 in a box more than two feet long (about 61 cm), allowing developers to create MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2 applications. It contains more than 20 separate floppy disks for the program itself; and more than 20 printed paper documents with more than 10,000 pages, taking up most of the weight and space of the entire package.

Bun received $7 million in funding and set up a company, promising to release a stable version within six months

Bun, an up-and-coming JavaScript runtime, has announced that it has received some backing funding. The announcement noted that Oven, a company formed to support and commercialize the project, has raised $7 million in funding led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.

Jarred Sumner, the author of Bun, spent over a year building the project alone in private beta. Today, two months after its release, Bun has more than 32,000 stars on GitHub and 14,000 members on Bun's discord server; a total of more than 100 people have contributed to Bun. "Bun is a very large, ambitious project. It needs more than a full-time job. Bun aims to be more than a JavaScript runtime."

Therefore, the announcement generally announced three key points:

• Introducing Oven - the company that will lead the development of Bun, provide hosting services, and evolve Bun into an end-to-end solution for JavaScript.
• Oven has raised $7 million in funding led by Bucky at Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Guillermo Rauch, YCombinator's Continuity Fund, and others.
• Oven is hiring.

Latest technical developments

TiDB 6.2 released

The open source distributed relational database TiDB has released the latest version 6.2. This version provides many improvements, which mainly focus on: observability, performance, stability, data ecology enhancement and MySQL compatibility.

For a detailed introduction to each new function, you can stamp: https://blog.csdn.net/TiDB_PingCAP/article/details/126643924

Visual Studio Code 1.71.0 released

The code editing and debugging optimization tool Visual Studio Code has released version 1.71.0. The main updates of this version include improved merge editor, extended codec support, file renaming options, new Code Action UI, and more.

For details, please check the version update: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_71

Deno 1.25 released, new deno init command

Modern and secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime Deno officially released version 1.25, which added "deno init" subcommand, optimized Deno.file open & stream, fixed default onListen callback, split upgradeHttp into two APIs, and more.

For details, see: https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases

Jina 3.8.0 released

Jina, the cloud native neural search framework, has ushered in version 3.8.0. This version adds two new functions, namely, upgrading the protobuf version, adding indicators for the number of failed and successful requests, as well as bug fixes and code refactoring.

For more details, see: https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/releases/tag/v3.8.0

The team refuted the rumors that the team was dead, and wxPython 4.2.0 was officially released

Python cross-platform GUI tool wxPython 4.2.0 is released, because it has been too long since the last release, so there are rumors that wxPython is dead. In the official copy of the official announcement of the new version, the first sentence of the official blog is "The rumor about my death is only slightly exaggerated".

This release was refactored with wxWidgets 3.2.0, with some tweaks to the build script to ensure that on non-Windows platforms the compiler and flags used by default are the same as those used by wxWidgets, (the flags required by Python were added. ) If desired, compiler commands can be overridden by setting CC and CXX in the environment; new wx.FullScreenEvent and wx.EVT_FULLSCREEN.

For details, see: https://wxpython.org/news/2022-08-07-wxpython-411-release/index.html